Oslerianadj.n.

1905 Penny Press (Middletown, Connecticut) 16 Mar. 4/2 Dr. Osler’s dictum that men are ‘practically useless after 40 years of age’ implies that the achievements of men past 40 are useless also. Hence these books, written after their authors had crossed the Oslerian dead-line must be consigned to the garbage pail.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 5 Mar. 10/1 The so-called Oslerian theory that a man's life ends at threescore years.

1929 Science 22 Nov. 489/2 The Oslerian method of slowly but surely arousing an historical appetite by the proper touch in each exercise upon the historical bearings of the subject under discussion.

1968 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Dec. 601 The Oslerian Tradition in medical advances insisted on the importance of careful and expert clinical observation coupled with wide knowledge of the symptoms of disease.

1990 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 708/2 The science of general practice was [in 1948] what Tudor Hart dubbed ‘the Oslerian science’ of diagnosis in individual patients plus some therapeutics: the general practitioner was still a watered down hospital doctor.

1994 Ann. Internal Med. 120 682 Discussants of internal medicine often invoke but seldom define ‘the Oslerian tradition’, which has many meanings... The tradition might be best understood as a virtuous approach to medicine and to life as taught and modeled by Osler.

2001 Isis 92 197/1 He is to be thanked, too, for providing Oslerian scholarship with an example of industry, insight, and stylistic grace.

1984 Isis 75 749/1 The author, surely one of the most knowledgeable Oslerians, has skillfully connected the letters with a succinct and well-written narrative of Osler's life and accomplishments.

2001 Bull. Hist. Med. 75 744 He sees at least an analogous faith and hope taken up by some modern Oslerians.